When.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: eastern desert egypt

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Eastern Desert - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Desert

    The Eastern Desert (known archaically as Arabia or the Arabian Desert [1] [2]) is the part of the Sahara Desert that is located east of the Nile River.It spans 223,000 square kilometres (86,000 sq mi) of northeastern Africa and is bordered by the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea to the east, and the Nile River to the west.

  3. Gabal Sha'ib El Banat - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabal_Sha'ib_El_Banat

    Gabal Sha'ib El Banat is a mountain in Egypt, situated in the Saharan Eastern Desert, 40 km from the Red Sea, ... and is the highest peak of mainland Egypt ...

  4. Mons Porphyrites - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mons_Porphyrites

    Mons Porphyrites (today Jabal Abu Dukhkhan) is the mountainous site of a group of ancient quarries in the Red Sea Hills of the Eastern Desert in Egypt. Under the Roman Empire, they were the only known source of the purple "imperial" variety of porphyry. They were exploited between the 1st and 5th centuries AD. [1]

  5. Monastery of Saint Anthony - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monastery_of_Saint_Anthony

    The Monastery of Saint Anthony is a Coptic Orthodox monastery standing in an oasis in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, in the northern part of the Red Sea Governorate close to the border with the Suez Governorate. Hidden deep in the Red Sea Mountains, it is located 334 km (208 mi) southeast of Cairo and can be reached from Cairo in just 5 to 6 hours.

  6. Geography of Egypt - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Egypt

    Egypt's geological history has produced four major physical regions: Nile Valley and Nile Delta; Western Desert (from the Nile west to the Libyan border) Eastern Desert (extends from the Nile Valley all the way to the Red Sea coast) Sinai Peninsula; Egypt is the eighth most water stressed country in the world.

  7. List of deserts - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deserts

    Tin-Toumma Desert – a desert covering southeastern Niger, at the south of the Ténéré; Libyan Desert (also called Western Desert) – a desert covering eastern Libya, western Egypt and northwestern Sudan at the west of the Nile River. White Desert – a desert covering a part of western Egypt and located in Farafra, Egypt

  1. Ad

    related to: eastern desert egypt